![]() ![]() ![]() So that’s how I knew Hank. But until I read the script, I had no knowledge of his life, his circumstances, his marriage … all of that stuff was new to me,” Hiddleston tells WTOP. “People say to me that ‘Hey Good Lookin’ is like ‘Happy Birthday.’ It’s one of those things, you can start singing, ‘Hey Good Lookin’ anywhere in the world and people will join in, and they often don’t know it’s Hank Williams. Starring the brilliant Tom Hiddleston as the tragic music genius, the film explores both Hank’s rise to stardom on hits like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Lovesick Blues,” “Hey Good Lookin'” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and the damage his drunken womanizing had on wife Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen). This provides the backdrop for the final scene of the new biopic “I Saw the Light,” as concert goers solemnly sing the title gospel tune upon learning of his untimely death by heart failure - triggered by alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate to ease the pain of spina bifida - at the young age of 29. 1 country hits (three posthumously) when he died in the back seat of his Cadillac en route to a concert on New Year’s Day 1953. WASHINGTON - Before Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse became music martyrs for their respective generations, Hank Williams left us eleven No. Novem| WTOP's Jason Fraley chats with Tom Hiddleston & Marc Abraham ( Jason Fraley) Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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